October 26

 

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THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Alfred the Great (d. 899), king of the West Saxons, scholar
Cedd (d. 664), abbot of Lastingham, bishop of the East Saxons

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Louis Orione (d. 1940), priest (Ambrosian calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (16 babah/teqemt):
Agathon (d. ca. 660), 39th patriarch of Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church)

LUTHERANS:
Frumentius (4th cent.), evangelist in Ethiopia

MARONITES:
Demetrius the Myrrhbearer and Nestor (d. ca. 306), martyrs
Evaristus I (2nd cent.), pope

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Demetrius the Myrrhbearer, megalomartyr
Earthquake at Constantinople in 740
Anthony of Cqondidi (d. 1815), bishop (Georgian Church)